I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
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Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know–because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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And in the end, we were all just humans, Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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We all have souls of different ages.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
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Life is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.
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It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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